An investigative team determined the train carrying coal derailed at a small break in the rail line several hundred feet from where the victims, 19-year-olds Elizabeth Nass and Rose Mayr, were sitting near the tracks.

The report added that CSX inspected that part of the track the day before the incident and found no defects, but it also said there were some "maintenance deficiencies."

The massive derailment sent 21 of 80 train cars off the tracks, crushing several vehicles below the Main Street bridge. Nass and Mayr, who were sitting on a ledge of the bridge a few feet from the tracks, were smothered under a heap of coal that fell from one of the cars.

The report seems to indicate that the girls were likely just in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Nass was a student at James Madison University and Mayr was a student at the University of Delaware. Both had graduated a year earlier from Mount Hebron High School.

Flooding and high heat had been reported in the days leading up to the derailment, but a preliminary report released a month after the tragedy ruled out weather as a factor in the crash. However, the report released Monday did note that several locations prior to and at the point of derailment showed "fouled ballast conditions," meaning the track's drainage system may have been clogged with debris. Photos released with the report showed muddy conditions under the tracks.

Robin McCall, a spokeswoman for the Nass and Mayr families, responded to the report on Tuesday. She told 11 News that a track supervisor described that area of the railroad as "higher risk" with some curves that needed replacement at the time of the derailment. McCall said rail replacement in that area had been scheduled but hadn't been done at the time of the crash.

McCall also said NTSB investigators found field welds and recently installed rail plugs in that area that were put there to repair a defect in the track instead of a permanent repair. She said the Federal Railroad Administration equipment database shows that broken rails or welds are the leading cause of derailments.

"This sets up an entirely foreseeable event of tragedy when you put dangerous cargo over those tracks. It's rather devastating to know that this was completely preventable," said Ron Goldman, the attorney for the Nass and Mayr families. "They let the Bandaid get old an ineffective and allowed traffic to go over it. … If you put a Bandaid over a festering sore, it's still going to fester."

A final NTSB report with recommendations has yet to be released.

The NTSB said it will not be holding a board meeting about the investigation, but McCall said the families feel it deserves one. She said the events that led to the girls' deaths should be examined openly so they're fully accounted for and so future incidents can be avoided.

"That is a paramount consideration in the minds of the parents. They don't want to walk away from this believing that their children died in vain," Goldman said.

Sharon Mayr, the mother of Rose Mayr, issued a statement Tuesday, saying, "Our hope is that the investigation will tell us why this derailment occurred and how we can best prevent such a tragedy in the future."

McCall said Tuesday that both families pored over the many pages of the latest report once it was released. Rose Mayr’s father, Mark Mayr, said he was angry at what it found.

"I am appalled at the lack of engineering rigor that goes into maintenance decisions. The defect that was discovered and patched the month before was within feet of the point of derailment. The decision to patch it, defer repair, and continue to operate at rated speed made no allowance for the poor track support caused by fouled ballast, nor the sharp curve and aggressive spirals at that location. CSX or its predecessors have over 180 years of experience running trains over this very spot. That experience was not evident in the maintenance decisions that I read," he said in a statement.

Meanwhile, Nass’s mother, Sue Nass, said, "Our daughters did not cause the derailment, CSX did. A rail car should not turn over and kill innocent people."